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Some Apple Employees Have 'Concerns' About iOS 26.4's Revamped Siri
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For me, the largest concern with a "personal context" is privacy. Siri is prone to accidental waking, so the addition of your current screen being sent off to the cloud on a false activation, with all the associated data hoovered in training risks, is a place I don't want to be. And yes, i know Siri is processed in the cloud, but it's not currently getting all that context bundled in/
Siri is dumb as a bucket of hair, but for simple tasks like "set a timer" and "what's the news" it is fine 80% of the time (about the same reliability of the top performing LLMs except Siri only 'finds this for you on the web' instead of the LLM making the made up facts sound plausible).
I imagine it will go behind a switch, but if we look how much of "Apple Intelligence" still remains while it's supposed to be turned off, so just on the current state, I do fear that even with Siri turned off, the screen context will still eb sent to some AI company and leaked.
I really hope Apple pull back from this, and differentiate themselves from Google and Microsoft. People who wish to interact with these markov chains, can already install one of their existing apps.
Siri is dumb as a bucket of hair, but for simple tasks like "set a timer" and "what's the news" it is fine 80% of the time (about the same reliability of the top performing LLMs except Siri only 'finds this for you on the web' instead of the LLM making the made up facts sound plausible).
I imagine it will go behind a switch, but if we look how much of "Apple Intelligence" still remains while it's supposed to be turned off, so just on the current state, I do fear that even with Siri turned off, the screen context will still eb sent to some AI company and leaked.
I really hope Apple pull back from this, and differentiate themselves from Google and Microsoft. People who wish to interact with these markov chains, can already install one of their existing apps.
Would it kill Apple to fix autocorrect across all devices? Correct words are replaced, incorrect words are ignored. Misspelled words are often ignored, while correctly spelled words are sometimes corrected to something completely irrelevant.
It's unacceptable to have iOS around for almost two decades, and autocorrect is still a total f***ing s***show.
It's unacceptable to have iOS around for almost two decades, and autocorrect is still a total f***ing s***show.
It literally reads:
“Already, there are concerns from people testing iOS 26.4 — the OS version slated to include the new Siri — about the voice assistant’s performance.”
Mark Gurman has had a few misses lately (See: “AirPods Pro 3 will have almost no improvements over the AP2”). Even if this story is true, I can’t think of a safer prediction than “some nameless people are worried that Siri might not be good enough when it comes out months from now”. He’s effectively saying nothing.
And now you know what privacy is worth. $20. Since there was no admission of wrongdoing one can’t say whether or not Apple lied.
yeah, for those who have access to the original.
for those who only read MR it reads "some Apple employees ... some of Apple's SW engineers ...", no mention of people testing 26.4 ...
it's unfortunate that MR "summarizes" in the way they do ... I've been falling into that trap myself and thankfully @klasma has corrected me a couple times
Well look on the bright side. They never had concerns with the old Siri
Which people? What are their "concerns"? Is it slow? Bad at parsing requests? Wrong? Does it fail often? Is the UI bad/unfinished? Are they concerned about timing? How does it compare to Gemini or Alexa? How is it architected? Does it run on an Apple LLM or on ChatGPT? Do they have privacy concerns? What does leadership think?...
Any combo of those—even one of them!—would be worth reporting; this is nothing.
It’s most likely all of them, while running on chat gpt. They have a talent for butchering software
They are wondering why an expensive spatial computer thats really the first of kind isn't selling like a cheap macbook air. People call it a flop but I never hear the sale numbers for the studio or the mac pro which is also a specialty device.
Just give us the ability to further integrate other AI models into the OS. If you are this far behind and still going to be releasing an embarrassing product, just let us pick something else at this point...
And half the forum was telling how it was going to be great and it would not look at all like the hideous thing shown in the leaks. In fact they said they were looking forward to the announcement except it looked exactly like that 😂. I suspect these people will also say the new Siri is amazing even if it turned out to be really bad.
I don’t think I could find a better example of being delusional. Very few products in Apple’s history are more a flop than the Vision Pro is. It’s so bad it only had a minor upgrade years later and it’s almost guaranteed to be discontinued altogether. If this is not a flop I don’t know what is.
You mean a ducking shot show?
Yeah, I'm not sure what to say anymore.
If one doesn't think the Vision Pro is a flop, I don't know what would ever be considered a flop to that person.
I miss the days of Steve Jobs worshiping where we would live for and be presented with functioning products that were simple to use. People complained that Steve Jobs was an overly fierce slave driver, but I the end user didn't care since I was rewarded as long as I parted ways with large sums of money.
no company lives forever. I think chinese companies are catching up fast. the old apple doesn't exist anymore.
the 2025 apple has no clue what is doing.
Vision Pro is the opposite of jobs vision: it's an expensive product and a niche for rich people. that's was never the intention for iPad and iPhone.